Improvement in gridirons



ANNA Pulci.r

Gridirons.

Patented Feb` 24.1874.

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ANNA PRICE, OF MARYSVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF IIER RIGHT TO ISAAC N. PRICE, OF TROY, OHIO.

IMPRovEMEN-r IN GRIDIRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l490, dated February 24, 1874; application filed September 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ANNA PRICE, of Marysville, Union county, Ohio, have invented an ImprovementinMeatBroilers 5 andIdo hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view, of my improved meat-broiler.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of broilers which are intended to be used upon the ash-pan in the hearth of a cooking-stove; and it consists in constructing the grooved bars of the gridiron so as to slant toward the stove-doors and project underneath them. Said bars are set in a frame which fits snugly upon the top of the ash-pan, except that part opposite the stove-doors, which part is left open for the admission of air. A cover is placed over the Whole frame, which compels the draft to pass underneath the gridironbars through the coals, keeping them ignited, and at the same time supplying the fuel in the stove with air.

In the drawings, A represents the gridiron, Which is supported upon the inside of the frame B in such a manner that the ends of the bars Will be lower at a than at a', causing them to slant from a to a. The ends of the bars, at a, project beyond the frame B, and when the broiler is in position upon the stove-hearth the ends a of thel bars project under the stovedoors into the 1irebox of the stove. rlhe bars of the gridiron being' grooved in the ordinary manner, the slant toward the doors carries the grease forward into the re of the stove, feeding the fire and avoiding the smoke. C is a cover, which lits tightly upon the frame B.

The operation of my invention is as follows: Having removed the cover of the ash-pan in the hearth of a cooking-stove, and having filled said ash pan with live coals, the frame B, containing the gridiron A, covered by the cover C, is placed over the coals in the ash-pan. The frame B is made to iit the top of the ash-pan, except at the back, where a space is left for the admission of air, as is illustrated at y in Fig. 2. The air, having no other place to enter the stove, by reason of the covered frame tightly fitting all other places, is compelled to enter aty, and thus forced to pass through the coals under the gridiron and keep them alive.

The advantages arising from the use of my improved broiler are, first, that by reason ofthe slant given to the grooved bars the grease is carriedr into the fire -pot of the stove and burned, and also, by the draft being forced underneath the broiler, the smoke and gases are carried off up the chimney, and no unpleasant iiavor is communicated to the meat upon the gridiron; second, by reason ofthe draft being driven through the coals underneath the gridiron they are kept ignited, and the broiling is much more perfect lthan in the ordinary method, Where the coals are left to die; third, my broiler may be used upon any ordinary stove which has an ash-pan in its hearth, there being no peculiar construction of the stove required to adapt it to be used.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is-,

The combination of the grooved bars A of a gridiron, slantin g toward and projecting into theirebox of a cooking-stove, With the frame B and cover C, the whole arranged, with reference to the ash-pan and hearth, substantially as described and set forth.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed, Vat Marysville, this 9th day of September, A. D. 1873.

ANNA lPRICE.

TVitnesses I. T. JOHNSON, W. D. PRULEY. 

